LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal judge on Monday determined the U.S. government is violating its own rules regarding the treatment of people seeking asylum. Judge James Boasberg issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to stop what opponents called the arbitrary detention of legitimate asylum seekers. The case in question continues,…
LAGOSJULY D (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African woman is recovering in hospital after being discovered alive in a mortuary fridge. The woman was taken to Carletonville morgue, in Gauteng province, having been declared dead by paramedics following a road accident. Ambulance company Distress Alert said she had shown “no form of life”, South Africa’s TimesLive website reports….
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A notorious French criminal serving 25 years for murder used a helicopter Sunday to escape from a prison south of Paris, igniting a huge manhunt around the French capital. It was the second time he had escaped from a French prison — the last time he blasted his way out with hidden…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice President of Ghana, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, died on Friday during his early morning exercise in Accra. Local media reports that the former number two man of the country under the John Mahama led National Democratic Congress collapsed at a gym at the Air Force base where he had gone to exercise….
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada struck back at the Trump administration over U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs on Friday, vowing to impose punitive measures on C$16.6 billion ($12.63 billion) worth of American goods until Washington relents. The announcement by Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland marks a new low in ties between the neighbors and trading partners which…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iraq has executed a dozen members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) on death row, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s office said on Friday, after he vowed a swift response to the armed group’s killing of eight captives. The executions were carried out on Thursday,…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A British Colombia Supreme Court judge imposed conditional sentences on two men who belong to a breakaway Mormon sect after convicting them of polygamy Tuesday, sparing them jail time. Winston Blackmore was found guilty of having 24 wives, while the court found James Oler had five wives. Blackmore’s six-month conditional sentence to…
LAGOS JUN 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A British couple have been found dead near their home in Jamaica in what local police are treating as a suspected double-murder. Charlie Anderson, a 74-year-old Windrush migrant had retired to Jamaica from Manchester with his wife Gayle, 71, just 12 months ago. The couple’s bodies were discovered ‘partially burned’ and with…